Corporate Media Journalists Just Love Rich Guys Wed, 09/24/2008 - dlindorff The people who pose as journalists in today's corporate media are in awe and in love with the rich. How else to explain their fatuous praise for the likes of Warren Buffett, who on one hand bets $5 billion on Goldman Sachs shares, and on the other, posing as a disinterested wise man and patriot, publicly advises Congress to go along with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's $700-$1-trillion bailout of Goldman and the rest of Wall Street?
Read more http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/211 Just Thinking Aloud Here Tue, 09/23/2008 - dlindorff When the bankers and investment bankers and insurance execs blew it, and were facing the prospect of losing their bonuses and their companies, the Bush administration rushed in as though they were a bunch of victims of a hurricane facing flooding and imminent death (no, wait a minute, Bush and his gang didn't do squat when that situation arose in New Orleans), or rather, as though they were a bevy of oil industry "lobbyists" offering night service. Read more http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/210 What Nobody's Saying: The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar Mon, 09/22/2008 - dlindorff What nobody in the corporate media is mentioning amid all the blather about the $700-billion Paulson bailout proposal is the impact it will have on the US dollar. We are told that this huge gift to the financial sector-the assumption, at top dollar, of all the bad debt they've piled up--will be at taxpayer expense, but that's only the half of it. (Really only the quarter of it because since the US government is technically bankrupt already, spending more than it takes in each year, all that money will be borrowed, and will be added to the national debt, meaning that just as the real cost of the $500-billion Iraq War is closer to $2 trillion, the real cost of the $700 billion bailout will be more like $1.5-2.5 trillion.) Read more http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/209 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
